Filippo Valsorda

I mess with cryptography and Go. RC F'13, F2'17. You might know me as @FiloSottile.

tl;dr See the bullet points for the supported programs and the last paragraph for installation. Something I always wanted is native touchpad/mousewheel scrolling in all my terminal programs. MouseTerm hacks that into the OS X Terminal, but I am a iTerm2 user. I tried and gave up researching… »

Google recently announced that images in emails will be displayed automatically by default to Gmail users, thanks to an anonymizing proxy operated by them. This, they say, will actually benefit users privacy. This might very well be true if images are prefetched when an email is received. The help page… »

This is an image that has become kind of a cultural icon in the cryptography and InfoSec community. I'm speaking about "the penguin", a picture of the Tux Linux mascot encrypted with a block cipher in ECB mode that still shows clearly the outline of the original. [email protected] @ErrataRob ECB… »